PREFACE. 
project for a Botanical Survey of the Indian 
Empire having now taken shape, it is considered desir- 
able that there should be some special channel through 
which the results of the Survey may be communicated to 
those interested in the progress of Botanical Science. It 
has therefore been decided to issue, under the title of 
“ Records/* such reports made by officers of the Survey 
as shall contain matter of botanical interest or of novelty. 
These Records will be published, not at fixed intervals, 
but from time to time as appropriate materials may be 
received. 
